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T. R. EVANS.

SHOE.

Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

INVENTOR:

UNITED i STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS B. EVANS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,144, dated March16, 1886.

Application filed August 2Q, 1885. Serial No. 175,031. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS R. EvANs, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoes, which improvementis fully set forth in the following specification and accolnpanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a shoeembodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a perspective View thereof.Fig. 3 represents a section in line x x, Fig. l. Fig. 4 represents aperspective view of a portion of a modification.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

My invention consists in attaching the ilap of a shoe to the vamp byforming slits in the vamp and inserting the lower end of the aps betweenthe walls of the slits, and then stitching the iiaps to said walls.

It also consists in attaching the flaps to the vamp by inserting thelower end of the flaps in the slits in the vamp, and providing the vampwith gussets which are located adjacent to said slits, so as to improvethe lit of the vamp and avoid crimping of the upper.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the vamp of a shoe, and B thequarters thereof, all formed of one piece of leather.

O O represent the flaps of the shoe, the lower ends of the forwardportions thereof being fitted in slits D, made in the vamp near the topthereof, the lower ends of the remaining portions of the liaps beingsecured to the upper ends of the quarters. The lower ends of the forwardportions of the flaps are-secured to the vamp by a row of stitches, E,which pass through the flaps and walls of the slits D, and another rowof stitches, F, above the row E, thus employing a double row of stitchesfor securing the iap to the vamp, making an exceedingly strongconnection of said parts.

G represents a gusset in the tongue edge at the top of the vampgor theremay be a gusset on each side of the tongue adjacent to the slits D, bywhich provision the crimping of the upper is avoided and the shoe isrendered flexible at the instep, thereby making a better and easier it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A shoe having slits D in the vamp or quarters thereof, and flapsfitted between the walls of said slits and secured thereto,substantially as described.

2. A shoe having slits' D in the vamp or quarters thereof, and ilapslitted between the Walls of said slit and secured thereto, and a gussetor gussets connected with said vamp or quarters adjacent to said slits,substantially as described.

3. The vamp and quarters formed in one piece, with the slits D in thevamp, in combination with the flaps tted in said slits and secured tothe walls thereof, and the gussets G, connected with the vamp adjacentto the slits, substantially as described.

THOS. R. EVANS.

Vitnesses:

JOHN A. VIEDERSHEIM, W. F. KIRCHER.

